Riots.
According to a Kiaifé Honan, dispatch the anti-w inated, as ust the inhabit pay, mission-while collecting money fom ary indemnity due by the provine settled last year between the Chinese rovineial authorities of Honan and tie R. C. priests there. The fuct was the Chithsien of Piyang and his underlings tried to collect ten times more than what been settled upon, and whilst doing so the former caused three well-known gentry of Piyang, who had "pposed him, to stand in cage: which resulted in the death by strangul ction of the three victim A clerk of the Piyang yamen, whose sputd wealth—through' generations of Squeoziny," the post being a hereditary as said to mount up to. hundred:
nds of taels, upon trying to speak his superior officer in favour of the men in the eases Was immediately ordered to a heavy fine, which sentence being disputed the Chihhsien o: dered the contise: tion of one-half of his clerk's property. Such unprecedented conduct created a universal outery against the Chibli-ien and his underlings, and when they trid to defend themselves by saying that they had done all this because the KR. C. priests demanded imme mob) after murdering aad pillaging con verts outside the city, surrounded Pi-Jong and tied to take the city by Assault, declaring that they would only disperse. afte they had slauzhtervdl tee Ghsbhsien, his farv'y and tstings, and the RE. pri-sts and consist who taken refuge inside the cly. the Chibhsi-n's. name is Fei, and it is report-that his mind has been unhinged, through terror for his life. Thousands of refuzecs from Piyang and vid which is near the Hupeh borders, have fled _into Hupeh owing tu the depredations of the mobs.
15th April.
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